Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in South Korea in May 2026

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• Pay Months — Korean Buy Now Pay Later(BNPL) fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce
• Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
• UModeler — UModeler is a Unity3D editor extension to empower you to designer your level and mesh without leaving Unity.

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• Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
• Pinderland — Pinderland is a mobile app that offers a shared map and allows users to share and communicate location information with one another.
• READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.

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• Aberra — Aberra is using "Dister," an AI data analysis tool, to optimize sales for Coupang, one of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms.
• Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.
• Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People

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• SeedN — SeedN provides air conditioning system temperature management solutions for office spaces.
• Portrai — Portrai leverages cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics to reveal unprecedented biological insights, transforming target discovery into transformative therapies.
• Intelon Optics — Intelon Optics is a medical device company that focuses on the development and commercialization of the Brillouin Optical Scanner System.

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• Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
• Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
• DeepSmartech — Innovative thin film coating Process, Equipment, Recipe, Turn-key provider

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• Albus — Albus is a content company that creates games and VR content services.
• WADDLE — WADDLE provides technological solutions that aim to bridge the digital divide between visually impaired and sighted communities.
• Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.

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• LumanLab — LumanLab develops digital therapeutics to solve developmental delay problems.
• Enlivex Therapeutics — Enlivex is a clinical-stage macrophage reprogramming immunotherapy company that targets diseased macrophages in patients with sepsis. The company develops an autologous and allogeneic drug pipeline for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions such as Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD), solid organ transplant rejection, Crohn'sDisease, and other autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.The company's revolutionary approach is to induce immune tolerance by injecting apoptotic cells and facilitating their interaction with dendritic cells activates the body's innate, physiologic mechanism for down-regulating inflammation and autoimmunity.Enlivex is an Israeli-based cell immunotherapy company established in October 2005 by Professor Dror Mevorach, a world-renowned expert on clearance of dying (apoptotic) cells.
• Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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• KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.
• Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.
• DewCell — Dewcell Biotherapeutics develops synthetic platelets using biomimetic technology. The company's system secures stem cell differentiation technology into megakaryocytes that generate platelets and mass-produces artificial platelets.

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• Xpanner — Xpanner(Builtworlds Top 50), digital contech site solution, not only can bring productivity improvement(by 15% average), management efficency, safety and ESG improvement through our smart integration of conTech disparate products.
• Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.
• Bright Peak Therapeutics — Bright Peak is a biotech company that develops a portfolio of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. At Bright Peak, they are creating innovative cytokine therapeutics that are uniquely engineered to precisely control and expand desired biological properties.

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• Acon3D — Digital Asset Store. Use brushes, 3D backgrounds & animated deformes for all creative fields!
• Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
• Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.

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• Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
• Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
• Market Stadium — Market Stadium combines Real Estate Data and Urban Intelligence to optimize multifamily and single-family market research for commercial real estate investors

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• Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
• Surginex — Surginex is a biological drug development company that offers molecular biology, genetics, physical, and chemical analysis services.
• Market Stadium — Market Stadium combines Real Estate Data and Urban Intelligence to optimize multifamily and single-family market research for commercial real estate investors

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• Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
• AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
• Allround Doctors — Allround Doctors is a digital healthcare startup that develops digital medical devices for cancer patients.

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• CURAUM — CURAUM is a specialist in oral care and sleep-related health care products.
• ELROILAB — ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials.
• Avelos Therapeutics — Avelos Therapeutics is a precision medicine company in the clinical stage that finds, creates, and sells targeted therapeutics.

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• AutoHands — AutoHands is a South Korea-based mobility company that offers comprehensive integrated mobility services including vehicle buying and selling, management, online used-car auctions, car rentals, extended warranties, residual value guarantees, mobile maintenance, and accident compensation programs.
• Ride — RideNow: An app-based platform for test drives and vehicle purchases. RideCare: App-based B2B and B2C vehicle care services. RideContents: Educational services for automotive brands, aimed at enhancing the quality of manufacturers and importers. RideOn: After-sales management services for electric vehicle chargers.
• Rootfinders — RouteFinders develops an AI-based media platform to support independent living for visually impaired individuals in an increasingly digital world.

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• 8A Group — 8A builds strong study habits and helps students accelerate their mastery of knowledge. The 8A program focuses on in-depth academic skills, ensuring students master the necessary knowledge at an advanced level and achieve excellent results.
• Cashmore — Cashmore is an app service that analyzes consumers' store visits, mobility paths, and consumption history to deliver customized discount benefits.
• Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.

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• Playad.ai — The AI Ad Workspace
• Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform
• Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

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• Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
• Retentics — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI
• Exosphere Labs — Exosphere Labs is an information technology company that offers information security services.

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• Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
• Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
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• AiV — AiV is an intelligent automation solution company that provides an opportunity to learn computer vision technology and optomechatronics.
• āshibio — āshibio creates treatments for rare bone and connective tissue ailments, potentially preventing symptoms or slowing their course.
• Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

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• DALPHA — Simple, Fast, Affordable AI services. FREE AI Consulting, demo production. Fast AI service implement within 2WEEKS. 50% cost saving compared to existing AI Solutions
• Paraform — Match with expert recruiters and fill your hardest roles. Finding exceptional talent was extremely difficult, until now.
• Upstage AI — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.

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• Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
• Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
• Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.

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• Handys — Handys manages accommodation facilities without on-site human resources by automating all operational flows.
• Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
• PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.

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• Crosshub — Crosshub is a fast-growing blockchain-based company focused on next-generation identity authentication and global payment solutions, gaining attention as a key deep-tech fintech player in the domestic market.
• Unit Lab — "Unitlab is an innovative company that offers a comprehensive, integrated platform for modular architecture, streamlining every stage of the building process—from initial planning and design to final construction.
• Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.

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• Jikida — Jikida is an online compliance solution that allows businesses and organizations to monitor, manage, and supervise their compliance with personal information protection rules in real time.
• Hyphen — Hyphen has developed 'Yugwanggi', a YouTube ad search engine that categorizes advertising videos using generative Al technology. Hyphen aims to evolve from referencing work to a hub that integrates collaboration in PR/marketing work, It focuses on the marketer work process after referencing.
• Outcome — Outcome is an AI-powered solution that streamlines and improves the process of locating and engaging potential clients for B2B sales and marketing professionals.

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• MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
• Evacycle — Evacycle is a company that recycles waste electric vehicle batteries, focusing on developing technology to recover valuable metals and reuse waste materials for new purposes.
• Fitin — Fitin is a startup developing a subscription service model for replacing batteries in commercial electric vehicles such as taxis and cargo trucks.FitIn was known for its technological prowess in that it used its unique battery swap technology to overcome charging problems and remaining battery life (SOH), which were recurring problems in commercialelectric vehicles. Battery swap is a technology that replaces a depleted battery with a fully charged battery.

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• Gloud — Gloud offers dental digital and digital practice transformation services.
• Bungee — Bungee is a recruitment platform that provides hiring, SEO, content marketing, and performance marketing services.
• Metainnotech — Metainnotech is an innovative technology platform that provides inter-floor noise reduction solutions in apartments and complexes using AI and various algorithms.

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• Carlet Store — Carlet Bio is a wholesale supplier of packaging solutions.
• Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
• ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.

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• AiderX — AiderX is a technology startup that creates AI assistants for everyone. We believe that AI should be available to everyone and that it has the potential to change the way we live and work. Our goal is to make AI simple, intuitive, and simple to use.
• Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
• PineTree Therapeutics — PineTree Therapeutics engages in the development of disruptive therapies in Oncology and Immuno-oncology.

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• NXN Labs — NXN Labs empowers individuals in crafting indistinguishable and sophisticated human images and videos. It goal is to empower people to seamlessly navigate this exciting, intertwined journey into a new era.
• MedInTech — Our mission is to help both doctors and patients through our intuitive and intelligent medical devices
• Korea Education Partners — Korea Education Partners is utilizing AI technology to facilitate a shift in educational paradigms, aiming to transition from traditional test-based education to customized career education. Their AI-based SaaS, 'Hakjong Pro', offers affordable, high-quality services like life record management, department selection tests, tax-relatedtopic recommendations, and research activity assistance tools for local academy teachers.

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• Dentlink — Next Generation Dental Lab Service
• Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
• My Herb & Healthcare — MyHerb Healthcare proivdes a specialized analysis for nutritional supplements.

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• mAy-I — mAy-I is a tech startup that develops advanced human tracking solution based on machine learning techniques.
• Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.
• Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.

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• User Spoon — User Spoon is a tool designed to streamline and enhance the process of user experience (UX) research by offering features that improve efficiency, such as user testing, feedback collection, and data analysis tools. It supports UX professionals in gathering insights faster and more accurately, ultimately leading to more user-centered designdecisions
• Space Oddity — Space Oddity is a music company.
• Copper Innovation Technology — CIT Co, Ltd utilizes metal single crystals and the ASE method to ensure the accurate, lossless transmission of every signal.

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• Genesis lab — Genesis lab is a authentic machine to human communication to improve the way human and machine communicate.
• Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
• ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.

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• Charan — Charan is an operator of an e-commerce platform intended to sell second-hand fashion apparel.
• Eridu — Eridu is the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, breaking through the network wall with a solution built from the ground up for scale-out and scale-up networks in AI data centers. Eridu’s network switch delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and throughput needed to maximize utilization, throughput andefficiency in AI clusters and data centers. Founded by a team of accomplished technology and business innovators and backed by leading investors with over $200M in funding to date, Eridu is solving the network bottlenecks throttling AI.
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• Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
• KODA — KODA provides business and institutional customers with digital asset storage services.
• PI Corporation — PI Corporation is a new media and entertainment firm.

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• Modapl — Modapl's objective is to make all mobility data available to everyone. It is developing a platform for exchanging mobility data. The platform will contain data generated by autos, IoT devices, and smartphones, as well as mobility data owned by businesses.
• BrickBio — BrickBio: Bioconjugation platform for site-specific, site-selective modification of antibodies and other proteins
• HMC Networks — Hmcnetworks leads service innovation, resolving the imbalance of information in the medical industry by using big data.

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• Deskera — All In One Business Software with Accounting, Inventory, CRM, Payroll and HRMS.
• NXN Labs — The Digital Production OS for Modern Commerce
• Ohouse — No.1 Interior Onestop Platform

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• Dot Mill — Dot Mill is a mixed reality content production company.
• Foody Worm — Foody Worm is an insect research company that practices and develops ESG and sustainability management through insects.
• Works Mate — Works Mate is a job search matching platform for daily workers in the field of construction and architecture sectors.

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• Vueron — VUERON provides the lidar perception software for ADAS, autonomous vehicle, industrial safety and security system.
• SDT — SDT delivers full-stack quantum computers and drives quantum transformation at your sites.
• Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.

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• FeatPaper — Turn PDFs and presentations into interactive web viewers with engagement analytics. Know who viewed your document and what they focused on.
• MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
• SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.

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• EYL — EYL | Quantum Shieldz | QRNG | Quantum | Developed quantum convergence security solution Quantum Shieldz based on ultra-small quantum entropy chip technology
• MediMabBio — Creating therapeutic opportunities for the most serious diseases.
• Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.

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• Oncosoft — Oncosoft develops software solutions with a focus on anti-cancer treatment. Their offerings include an Oncology Information Management Solution (OIMS) and artificial intelligence-based technologies for radiologists. The software aids in the detection of cancer, contributing to the medical community's efforts in precision cancer therapy.
• StudioBside — StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
• Beyond Honeycomb — Beyond Honeycomb is a food-tech company developing an AI-driven kitchen robot solution. Our AI Chef reproduces the texture and taste of the world-class chef’s dish at the molecular level.

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• iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
• Gaonchips — Gaonchips is a chip enterprise that engages in system semiconductor development. They provide an optical solution to clients based on technology. It also provides all solutions necessary for developing and producing massive system semiconductors, ranging from RTL and platform design and verification, DFT insertion, layout, and packaging to testing.
• OPENEDGES Technology — OPENEDGES Technology, Inc. is the world's only total memory subsystem and AI platform IP provider that delivers NoC interconnect, DDR memory controller, DDR PHY, and NPU IPs.

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• Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
• iTruck — iTruck is a transportation application that offers an integrated trading platform for used trucks.
• Ace Engineering — Ace Engineering company manufactures containers for aerospace, semiconductors, military, and other industries. Its product line includes aircraft parts, cryogenic refrigeration, bulletproof containers, and energy storage containers, as well as equipment designed for marine and aviation special projects.

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• Modusign — Modusign is an IT brand and electronic contract company.
• ADRO — Aerodynamic Development Race Optimization (ADRO) manufactures high-quality aerodynamic body kits, including carbon fiber front lips, side skirts, rear diffusers, spoilers, and widebody kits.
• Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

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• Mycel — IMAGINATION TRANSITION REGENERATION
• Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.
• Korea Deep Learning — Korea Deep Learning is an artificial intelligence technology company that offers OCR, analytics, and 3D DX solutions.

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• Biocom — Biocom is a green bio management company.
• Groupware Pro — Groupware Pro is a business management company that provides software for groupware communication solution.
• The Blessed Moon — The Blessed Moon is a cosmetics brand that sells and offers skin, face, hair, and body care products.

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• Upstage — Upstage AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that helps companies focus on their core businesses.
• 12 Pharmacy — 12 Pharmacy is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in manufacturing and providing medicines and services for veterinary hospitals.
• Habit Factory — Habit Factory provides financial big data analytics solutions.

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• Glovv — Glovv is a short-form beauty content development platform.
• Sapien Semiconductors — Sapien Semiconductors is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company that specializes in display driver ICs for micro‑LED and OLED technologies. The company develops custom ASICs and silicon‑proven IPs, including CMOS backplane drivers for AR/MR micro‑LED and pixel‑level driver ICs for TVs and digital signage. The firm also providesdisplay‑driver IP licensing and chip customization services.
• Next Level Studio — Next Level Studio is a group of creative experts dedicated to generating new value for intellectual property.